Beasts at bedtime : revealing the environmental wisdom in children's literature / Liam Heneghan.
Publisher: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2018Description: 338 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780226431383 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 809/.89282 23
- PN1009.5.E25 H46 2018
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-317) and index.
On reading. Beasts at bedtime: reading about nature with children -- Doctor Dolittle and the question of reading -- Pastoral stories. The pastoral promise: and they all lived happily ever after -- The ecology of Pooh -- Peter Rabbit's brutal paradise -- In the garden of earthly delights -- Beyond the pool of darkness: the pastoral roots of Irish stories -- Wilderness stories. On the Mallard -- Where the wild things always were -- Wild and Grimm fairy tales: wilderness on the margins -- "Gollumgate": Tolkien and Ireland -- "I am in fact a hobbit": Tolkien as environmentalist -- The tin woodman's path of carnage through the Land of Oz -- Hunger and thirst in Suzanne Collins's The hunger games -- Children on wild islands. The why and the what of islands -- Archmage Ged, Merlin, and Harry Potter and the training of wizards and witches -- Is L. T. Meade the real author of Enid Blyton's famous five? -- Robinson Crusoe: now here's a cannibalism tale for every child -- On isles benevolent; on isles malevolent -- Urban stories. The urban wild -- The urban to rural gradient of children's stories: The happy prince -- Antipathy to urban life in nursery rhymes -- Urban decay: R. Crumb in the nursery -- The escape artist: Calvin and Hobbes and the suburban idyll -- Babar: elephant and urban adapter -- Learning to care. Caring for the rose: environmental literacy and Antoine de Saint-Exupery's Tthe little prince -- What then should we do? the Lorax in the twenty-first century -- Good night, sleep tight. Bookend conversations.